After reading so many self-help books, it starts to seem as though they’re all saying the same things: think positive—don’t let problems get you down—turn your lemons into lemonade. All great advice, but what’s sometimes missing is the “how?”
One of my favorite quotes is by Rumi, it says: “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” This is one of my favorites because I believe it epitomizes the ultimate issue. Love is something that Read more…
One of the most common reasons I hear given for why people are single, especially women, is that their expectations are too high or unrealistic. This myth bothers me a bit more than the others— I cover it and more in my book, “Single That: Dispelling the Top 10 Myths Read more…
Our hormones and emotions sometimes do what they want with little regard for logic or purpose. I want to know that you chose me, and that you choose me again every day. Leave no room for doubt or indifference.
Seems there is no holiday topic more enticing than the love life of the single daughter, sister, aunt, or cousin. Everyone just has to know why she’s alone at the family dinner … Again.
Sometimes, as women, we feel the need to be stronger than most. We feel like we have to take less crap to be taken seriously. We strive to be near perfect, well put-together, and at the top of our game in all aspects of life. A large part of the Read more…
We believe pain and sadness without a second thought. Yet, we question the good things.
I remember intentionally flunking an eye exam when I was a kid. My mother took my brother and me to the optometrist for a routine eye test and I had decided that I was not going to pass it this time. Why? Because I wanted to wear glasses. So, when Read more…